Marry the villain and the whole court kneels down and calls her the queen

Running a school is a very complicated matter, involving a series of mechanism issues, from selecting people to do the job, to providing money, and supervision.

Selecting people to manage the school, recruiting teachers, enrolling students, and promoting the school were the responsibilities of court officials like Zhao Zhuoxi.

As soon as Jiang Jiu's plan to set up a free school came out, Zhao Zhuoxi asked the court officials to recommend candidates. Unexpectedly, just the matter of recommending candidates caused a huge uproar.

The teachers recommended were not serious ones, but children of aristocratic families, some of whom were even playboys.

However, Zhao Zhuoxi did not give the list to Jiang Jiu because Zhao Zhuoxi was about to take the opportunity to seize power from the aristocratic families.

On the contrary, Jiang Jiu handled this matter very well.

Because he had to withdraw money from her business, Jiang Jiu specifically asked his own shopkeeper to supervise the situation.

Merchants have been unpopular since ancient times and their class status is not high. Jiang Jiu's move just happened to break the habit of local officials looking down on merchants.

The big managers in various places have to spend a certain amount of money every year, but they have to personally check whether this money is used to run schools.

The money spent by shopkeepers in big cities, in addition to local free schools, also includes money spent in counties, prefectures and towns.

The administrative divisions of Daning are the capital, provinces, counties, and villages.

There are about seventy or eighty counties under a province, and each county has five or six villages.

It is not complicated, but tedious, because Jiang Jiu's free school is intended to benefit all children, so the governors of each province have to assign special personnel to handle this matter.

This person also needs to have a good relationship with Jiang Jiu's shop.

Moreover, the list of teachers and students in the school has to be submitted to the emperor and the princess layer by layer, so this matter is not so simple.

It took Jiang Jiu two months from the time he decided to handle this matter to selecting people and formulating rules.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and at the end of the year all the prefects will come to the Ministry of Personnel to report and summarize.

Zhao Zhuoxi just ascended the throne this year, and he wants to meet with these prefects in person.

The time for some prefects to take office has come, and Zhao Zhuoxi will transfer them based on their performance. Those who he thinks are good based on last year's investigation will be transferred to the capital.

Some who have no political achievements can continue to stay.

Both the old and new prefects had to report to Jiang Jiu, and Jiang Jiu had to personally tell them the threshold for recruiting students and the knowledge they needed to be taught.

First of all, students start attending school at the age of seven. As long as a child is seven years old, whether a boy or a girl, he or she must go to school. If he or she does not go to school, the government will punish the child's parents with twenty strokes of the cane plus a fine of five taels of silver per student.

Secondly, students should focus on learning content that meets the requirements of their initial enlightenment period. They must acquire sufficient literacy skills, at least enough to be able to write a narrative essay. Crucially, they should also be taught counting, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, along with basic arithmetic. Archery and martial arts can be taught as an option, and for children who struggle academically but enjoy swordplay, this can be further nurtured.

The basic learning lasts for four years, after which the child can take the examination for Tongsheng.

Whether or not one can pass the examination to become a Tongsheng is a turning point.

Children who can pass the examination to become a Tongsheng can continue their studies in school and receive the same treatment as before.

If a child fails to pass the examination to become a Tongsheng, he or she will no longer be able to attend school for free and can return home to do whatever he or she wants.

If they can't even pass the exam to become a Tongsheng, it means that these children and their parents have no idea about their children's studies. Someone has to cultivate the land at home.

Someone has to do the hard work.

Therefore, the number of students admitted to the free school was only limited to the level of Tongsheng.

Children who passed the examination to become a Tongsheng would go to the local school, and all expenses would be covered by Jiang Jiu's Liujiasan shop until they passed the examination to become a Xiucai.

After passing the examination to become a scholar, you can enjoy the supplies from the court.

Therefore, Jiang Jiu focused on the period when students of school age entered school.

Jiang Jiu's original words were to make sure all children could learn to read and write, eliminate illiteracy, popularize basic education, and improve the quality of the people of Daning.

However, the more basic something is, the harder it is to grasp.

Especially in some families, they do not realize the importance of literacy.

So Jiang Jiu established a system of beating and fining.

The pressure is put on the teachers of these free schools.

Jiang Jiu also established a reward system. As long as the teachers of these free schools had a child who passed the imperial examination, they would receive a reward of ten taels of silver. The more children passed the examination, the greater the reward.

Of course, this is only for basic teachers. The teachers who manage free schools also receive additional rewards, which are a share of the profits based on the proportion of students enrolled.

If this academy enrolls 100 students, the teacher will give an annual reward in addition to the monthly salary, paying 1% of the students' fees. For 100 students, the annual payment is 20 taels of silver, which means 2,000 taels for 100 students, and 1% is 20 taels.

The more students the better, and the more children the students are admitted, the better.

After Jiang Jiu finished explaining the details to these prefects, she gave them the list of students that she had asked the Ministry of Personnel to compile, and asked them to use as many of those who had passed the exam as possible, those who came from humble backgrounds.

There are also local juren, xiucai, etc. who did not pass the imperial examination.

This arrangement solved the employment problems of a large number of poor students.

The system has been established and the details have been arranged. The rest is up to the local governors to arrange.

But while these arrangements were still in progress, the triennial scientific expedition began.

Since the Chinese New Year, successful candidates from all over the country have started to come to Beijing. For a time, the capital was very bustling.

It was another day when Jiang Jiu made a fortune, because Jiang Jiu built four inns in the capital, one in the east, west, south and north of the city.

Jiang Yao has bought houses and land in various places, rented out shops and collected rent.

However, some locations are a bit remote, and it is not profitable to open a shop by yourself, and it is also difficult to rent it out to others. After looking at several cities, Jiang Jiu decisively modified those shops that could not be rented out and turned them into inns.

The inns in the capital are divided into high and medium-end, with the high-end ones in the inner city and the low-end ones in the outer city.

These students came from other places. Some of them could rely on friends, some relied on relatives, and those who had nothing could only choose to stay in inns.

Jiang Jiu's inn is more humane, with many partitions and small rooms. Some rooms can accommodate three or four people, some can only accommodate two people, and some can even accommodate one person.

The price of a single room is not expensive, which is just right for those poor students who love studying.

Jiang Jiu made money and gained fame. When these scholars heard that Princess Ronghua's free school needed to recruit teachers, some of them became interested.

In the past few days, the threshold of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion has been almost trampled flat.

This forced Duke Zhenguo Yao Shirong to come to the palace to hide away.

"My dear, you don't know. The number of letters submitted to me every day is more than the number of books your father and I have. Everyone, whether I know them or not, wants to see me. But I don't know anything about those free schools you mentioned."

Jiang Jiu nodded: "In fact, we can meet them and select some with good character to stay. If they pass the imperial examination, they can help the court share the burden. If they fail, they can return to their hometown to become teachers in the school and share my burden. The children also need teachers."